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Categories: 20th-century neologisms, Optical illusions, Cognitive biases, Visual perception, Auditory illusions

pareidolia Additional image perception auditory pareidolia Mimetolith Paeridolia

Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Wikipedia

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Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Wikipedia

A psychological phenomenon in which a vague stimulus is perceived as significant Wikipedia Disambiguation

Psychological effect of observing human faces in inanimate objects Wikidata

The perception of a known form or shape in an image that depicts something else, such as the perception of animal shapes in clouds. OmegaWiki

The tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something known to the observer, such as interpreting marks on Mars as canals, seeing shapes in clouds, or hearing hidden messages in music. Wiktionary

Tendency to interpret vague stimuli as something familiar. Wiktionary (translation)

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